Unknown device??? What is it trying to install??

[AndrewR]

Windows keeps trying to install an &quot;Unknown Device&quot; (that's exactly what comes up). Obviously a driver search does nothing, and curiously enough, if I use a pulldown menu to access a folder when Browsing for drivers, there is some gibberish there ( $%^$# <--something like that).

Does anyone have any clue what this could be and how to fix it? I'm at a loss as I've never seen anything quite like it. It'll go into Device Manager and sit there without information.

I'm baffled.

 

[StrangeRanger]

i'm too lazy to look at your systems and since you didn't tell us what you were running for gear i'm gonna throw out a guess for you. i had this same problem with a cusl2-c board. all it took was a trip to the intel site to get the latest chipset and ata drivers. be sure to install the drivers in the right order. i think it was chipset drivers, then ata drivers. it says on the intel site tho. hope this helps,
j

 

[AndrewR]

It's an MSI VIA board, not Intel. The strange thing is that I am not running anything differently than what I have in the past -- I just reinstalled Windows a little while ago.

 

[Slapstick]

Do you have the on board sound disabled in the BIOS?

 

[geeman]

if everything is working screw it, disable it, then you won't have to worry about until use figure what it is. I often get those problems from modem cards since they often have some kind of wave device for voice modem

 

[Dreadogg]

try reinstalling the via 4-1 drivers!!Maybe that will help or just diconnect it!did you reinstall the 4-1 when you installed win. again??

 

[Verygreedy]

Well get rid of the Unknown device! Thats my expert opinion! duh

 

[OliverP]

get latest 4in1 drivers from via bro.